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Jana ([personal profile] jana) wrote in [community profile] gimp_gate 2010-03-01 07:26 pm (UTC)

I don't know anything about Hinting, Force auto-hinter, and Antialiasing - I check and uncheck to see what looks best, [...]

That's a pretty good approach so far as I'm concerned :) But I looked up what the official documentation has to say about it, since we're here to learn and improve our GIMP skills and stuff... ;)

Hinting: Uses the indices of adjustment to modify the characters in order to produce clear letters in small font sizes.

Force Auto-Hinter: Auto Hinter tries to automatically compute information for better representation of the character font.

Antialiasing: Antialiasing will render the text with much smoother edges and curves. This is achieved by slight blurring and merging of the edges. This option can radically improve the visual appearance of the rendered typeface. Caution should be exercised when using antialiasing on images that are not in RGB color space.

Anyway, thanks for the tutorial! Simple, yet eye-catching.

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